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From: Frank Slootweg <this@ddress.is.invalid>
Newsgroups: comp.mobile.android
Subject: Re: What can't you do on Android WITHOUT a Google Account set up in the OS?
Date: 1 Jan 2025 20:46:39 GMT
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R.Wieser <address@is.invalid> wrote:
> Newyana2,
[...]
> > I'm amazed that these companies are allowed, legally, to exert such 
> > control over a device I paid for.
> 
> I hope you're not running Win10/11, which has become nothing more than a 
> thick ethernet client and doubling as an advertising platform. :-)

  This is not a Windows group, so let's not drift too much, but you
still can use Windows 10 and 11 without a Microsoft account and if you
answer no to all the 'prying' questions or/and set all 'prying' settings
to off, you get *no* ads, not from Microsoft, nor from any other
company. *Unless* of course, you're an paranoid American, because then
you deserve to get what you spread FUD, urban legends, etc. about! :-)

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